In a large cohort, viral loads of 400-20,000 copies/mL conferred a similar risk for AIDS or death as viral loads <400 copies/mL; viral loads >20,000 copies/mL were associated with increased risk ...

In a study of 426 antiretroviral-naive HIV seroconverters, 26% had at least one undetectable viral-load measurement and 9% had consecutive undetectable measurements. Previous reports indicated ...

According to an article published in the journal PLOS Pathogens, severe COVID-19 patients can be divided into two distinct ...

This is what is meant by the slogan 'Undetectable equals Untransmittable' ('U=U'). Having an undetectable viral load means that there is not enough of the virus in body fluids to pass on HIV during ...

A viral load result is usually described in terms of the number of HIV RNA copies per millilitre of blood (copies/ml). Because the actual copy numbers can span up to the hundreds of thousands and ...

A 40-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a 5-day history of fevers, sore throat, fatigue, subjective ...

While the virus continues along a loop of boom and bust repeatedly reset by its capacity for evolutionary escape, putting ...

This may sound strange but on some level antiviral drug research is "easy." Make that "easy compared to other therapeutic areas," because those who do research in the antiviral field – something I did ...

EDP-323 is an investigational inhibitor of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), currently showing promising results in Phase 2a ...

Babies born to mothers with HIV should receive HIV drugs within six hours after birth to prevent mother-to-child transmission ...

Enanta Pharmaceuticals has linked its respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) antiviral to significant reductions in viral load and symptoms in a phase 2a challenge study. The biotech said the results ...

Nations from Africa and the Caribbean should support the evidence-based U=U message and incorporate U=U into efforts to ...